What do you do?

Mechanical engineering student from Denmark - going on 6th semester and I'm going to New Zealand for 6 months for my internship in a few days.

Using VariCAD, QCAD, Pro/Engineer, Code_Aster and Code_Saturne to teach myself FEA - so far I've used them in a couple of school projects but it's mostly to satisfy my own curiosity.

Using them because I think Linux needs to play a larger role in CAE and because they are free.

Hi,

my name is Joël Cugnoni, aka "admin" on the forums, and main developer of CAELinux. I am working as research assistant at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Laboratory of Applied Mechanics & Reliabity and am trying to develop CAELinux on my "free" time.

During my studies, FEA & other numerical simulation methods quickly became my main interests. After having developed several finite elements formulations in an internal code dedicated to modal analysis, I was looking for more general codes to serve as a basis to further developments.. and discovered Code-Aster! After trying to compile Aster on Windows (in 2003), I have started to develop a LiveCD dedicated to Aster.. which progressivelly lead to the CAELinux project.

My current interests are mostly in multi-physics simulation and advanced numerical method in solid mechanics (numerical homogenization, multi-scale modelling, XFEM)... and in these fields, having access to source code is a really great advantage as it gives the opportunity to implement any kind of new features (code-coupling, new material behaviour, modified solvers...) without the restrictions of closed codes.

PS: in my academic work, I have been using Abaqus, COMSOL, and I-Deas for simulation...<br /><br />Post edited by: Administrator, at: 2009/01/24 12:38